This small aircraft has taken more time than I expected – mainly due to late deliveries of some aftermarket products that I considered a must with respect to what I wanted to get as a result.

So, what we have got here?

First of all, I couldn’t find any appropriate resin cockpit, therefore I used Eduard’s photoetched parts dedicated to this kit, in its interior as well as for the exterior of the model. Next are the wheel well covers, where I used a mix of photoetched and resin parts form QB. QB also produced the horizontal tail planes. The rest came out of the Hasegawa’s box.

Weathering is a mix of pigments and washes from MIG and AK Interactive, however most of the subtly dusty and faded effect simply VANISHED after a spray cote of flat clear from Gunze… next lesson learned. Didn’t correct this, as I just wanted to have this kit done at last.

Hope you like it anyway.

Will I come back to Ki-61 / Ki-100 Hien, after 4 kits done in 2016 and 2017? Certainly I will, there’s a new Tamiya’s kit, which is just beautiful. How could I resist?